Eliphalet Wickes

Eliphalet Wickes (1 April 1769-7 June 1850) was a member of the US House of Representatives from New York's 1st district from 1805 to 1807, serving in between Samuel Riker's two terms.

Biography
Eliphalet Wickes was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York on 1 April 1769, and he was employed as an express rider during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he practiced law in Jamaica, Long Island, and he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party in 1805. From 1807 (when he left office as a congressman) to 1835, Wickes served as Postmaster of Jamaica, and he also served as District Attorney of Queens County from 1818 to 1821. He died in Troy, New York in 1850 at the age of 82.